If the problem also appears when using IE and/or Chrome, your searches may have been Hijacked by malware.... probably installed along with some Freeware you downloaded and installed.If that is the case, this may help > http://malwaretips.com/blogs/websearch- ... o-removal/

"The trouble with quotes on the internet is you never know if they are genuine" ...Abraham Lincoln

PS: I forget to add that I just installed a new router and that was when the problem started. In addition the redirect to searchguide.tds.net/ is also the name of my internet provider: TDS! A coincidence?!

Why am I here?The TDS redirection service has been enabled to provide helpful searches from web address errors. You entered an unknown name that the TDS service used to present site suggestions which you may find useful. Clicking any of these suggestions provides you with Yahoo! search results, which may include relevant sponsored links.

Your current DNS provider (usually your ISP) is intercepting DNS lookup failures and presenting their own search page. You can switch from the DNS service provided by your ISP to one provided by a different service to avoid this garbage.

I think you are right. This all happened after I added a router to my computer to give access to my wife's laptop. What a crappy thing to do! However, what's involved with changing my DNS service? I followed the link you provided and am not sure if this is what I want or if in fact it's easy to do. What will change if I do this?

Your computer doesn't know how to go to a website by its web address name (e.g. mozillazine.com). When you click a link, your browser asks your operating system to query look up the IP (internet protocol) number for that address. Your operating system goes to the DNS (Dynamic Name System) server it's configured to use to do the lookup. The DNS server looks up the domain name and returns the IP number assigned to that domain name (e.g. for mozillazine.com, it would return an IP of 216.55.178.173) to your operating system. Your web request for the link you clicked is then sent off to that IP number. This DNS lookup activity is all done behind the scenes, so the user generally is not aware any of it is happening. If all goes well, it is fast enough that there is no noticeable lag time introduced by the process.

If you change the DNS server your system uses, nothing is different from a user viewpoint, as it's all taken care of in the background by your operating system. If the DNS lookup fails, you'd now get a "Site not found" or similar error instead of being redirected to your ISP's error handling search page as you are now.

My ISPs DNS servers used to be under-sized for the amount of traffic they received such that lookups during busy times of day often failed and I'd have to click links multiple times before getting through. I switched to the DNS servers at a local college and browsing performance was immediately improved. Eventually the college shut off access when not physically connected to their network, but by then my ISP had fixed its problem, so I'm back using their DNS servers again.

The article I referred you to has a "How Do I Change DNS Servers?" link. Or do a web search for Change DNS and your Router model or your operating system.

"Here in ?gfe_rd=cr&ei= gfe means Google Front-End, rd means Redirect, cr means Country. (till this you can find in all websites) And the final ei means Engine Id and also some random combination of numbers and letters is a cookie sent to our desktop.."

Hope that helps.

Apart from this to get REMOVE the REDIRECTION and TRACKING this video is helpful